OSLO (Reuters) - The European Commission urged U.N.
aviation and shipping organizations on Monday to do more to
fight climate change, saying they were not helping European
Union plans to extend its carbon market.

Commission Vice President Margot Wallstrom said the
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the
International Maritime Organization should "develop a much more
ambitious policy for climate change."

"I think they are lagging behind and they have not been
very helpful if you ask me," she told an Internet news
conference.

ICAO passed a resolution in September opposing an EU plan
to include foreign airlines in its emissions trading system
without mutual consent.

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Even so, Wallstrom said she hoped that both aviation and
shipping should be part of an international pact for fighting
global warming beyond 2012 when the first period of the Kyoto
Protocol runs out.

"The EU has already presented proposals for aviation and
has started to address the issue of the shipping industry," she
said.

"This has not been that easy because we had a setback with
ICAO...This is a strong commitment from our side and we will
follow up and I'm sure take a decision shortly on including the
aviation sector in the emissions trading system."

"The shipping industry is not as easy to include," she
said, noting complications such as a range of bunker fuel
qualities.